Feng Menglong, a famous scholar of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a "Complete Collection of Wisdom Tanks", collecting various strange things and bizarre cases in the past, and writing the story of people relying on wisdom and perseverance to solve problems and overcome the enemy, during which such a strange case was recorded.
In Wucheng County, Zhejiang, there is a rich man surnamed Zhang, who marries his wife Wang, and the husband and wife live together all year round, but they also have a good relationship.
But I don't know what the reason is, the husband and wife, but never able to give birth to children, the ancients once said: "No filial piety has three, no queen is greater." And Zhang Fuweng was also very anxious, looking at himself and Wang's age
in order to
Big, so he made up his mind to take another concubine. However, Zhang Fuweng also knew that his wife Wang Shi was very jealous, so he bought a property, married a concubine, and placed her in another place in the town.
Soon, the concubine was pregnant and about to be born, and the news came out, but it made the Wang clan jealous and afraid.
She was worried that once the child was born, Zhang Fuwen would give all the money to the child, and wouldn't she have no place in the second half of her life? At this time, Zhang Fuweng had gone out to do business and could not come back for a long time, so Wang Shi came up with a poisonous plan. Shortly after the concubine gave birth to the child, she deliberately brought the concubine to the house in the name of zuohe, but took the opportunity to take the child in her arms and drive the concubine away. Immediately afterward, the cruel Wang clan lost his mind, killed and burned the baby, and discarded it in the woods. "The king tempted his concubines to come to him, hunted them down, and burned them."
However, after the impulse, wang also began to regret it, how to explain it to her husband? She had to buy the neighbor's newborn baby to raise, and when Zhang Fuweng returned home and saw that she had a child, she was very happy, and Wang told her the story of the concubine's run away from home, and Zhang Fuweng was completely convinced.
However, the baby's body discarded by the Wang family was quickly found by the villagers and handed over to the county commander Yu Wenbo, who, after analyzing the recently born children nearby, deduced that the Wang family had a major suspicion. Immediately sent someone to summon the Wang clan and concubines to yamen for trial.
Wang Shi was very frightened, she quickly took her savings for many years to bribe the concubine's parents, and let them bring the concubine over, help her to the county order, and stage another play, and under the temptation of money, the concubine family even agreed to this request. ("The parents of Wang Hou's concubines, who bought a neighbor's child for the concubine's birth, did not die at first")
The next day, the Yamen ascended to the hall, and the Wang clan was armed with human and physical evidence, and he was even more fearless, but Yu Wenbo had already anticipated the Wang clan's ruse, and he ordered the concubine to breastfeed the baby on the spot. To the shock of everyone present, the baby did not want to eat the mother's breast milk, but instead cried. Zhang Fuweng was also puzzled, but the county commander Yu Wenbo sneered, slammed the table with a shocked wooden, and said sharply: "Your own son has long been killed!" ”
The concubine's parents saw the county order debunked, did not dare to hide the lie, and honestly confessed the incident, but the Wang family still wanted to deny it, but Yu Wenbo issued another order, inviting the baby's biological parents over, and as a result, the baby saw the arrival of the mother, very happy to throw himself into his arms, and ate as soon as he was fed. ("The child saw it, jumped into his arms, and drank it with milk"), and finally in the case of ironclad evidence, the Wang clan finally confessed his crime next to the stunned Zhang Fuweng, and the Wang clan finally paid the price for his own fierceness.